{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/shops-act-1950-repealed-1121994/section-44",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/shops-act-1950-repealed-1121994/section-44.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/14/28",
  "legislation_title": "Shops Act 1950 (repealed 1.12.1994)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/shops-act-1950-repealed-1121994",
  "path": "section/44",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "44",
  "heading": "Exemptions for post office business.",
  "text": "(1) Where post office business is carried on in any shop in addition to any other business, this Act shall apply to that shop subject to the following modifications:—\n(a) if the shop is a telegraph office, the obligation to close on the early closing day shall not apply to the shop so far as relates to the transaction of post office business thereat;\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) Save as aforesaid, nothing in Part I or section seventeen or nineteen of this Act shall apply to post office business, or to any premises in which post office business is transacted.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Shops (Early Closing Days) Act 1965 (c. 35), s. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 44(1)(b) repealed by Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), Sch. 8 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted by Employment Act 1989 (c. 38, SIF 43:1), s. 29(3), Sch. 6 para. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 44 extended by Shops (Early Closing Days) Act 1965 (c. 35), s. 5(2); explained by Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), Sch. 4 para. 51"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/14/28/section/44",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:18:55.840337+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}